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A Community Reaching A CommunityWed, 20 Mar 2019 00:58:02 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.4https://maranathabiblechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-red_mbc_transparent_back-32x32.pngHeads Up – Maranatha Bible Churchhttps://maranathabiblechurch.org
3232“Let the Dead Bury the Dead”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/ZpGRD7S7WfM/
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:00:45 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1236Another would-be disciple in Matthew 8 was a man who said he wanted to follow Jesus, but only after he had first met his family obligations. He wanted to bury his father. Jesus’ answer was, “Follow me, and leave the dead bury their own dead.” At first glance this seems to be a terribly insensitive &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/let-the-dead-bury-the-dead/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Let the Dead Bury the Dead”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/ZpGRD7S7WfM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/let-the-dead-bury-the-dead/“The Cost Discipleship”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/EbHcv1VjtsE/
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:00:14 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1229It is not unusual to hear Christians talk about Jesus as Lord and that this title should be acknowledged by His followers. But many otherwise well-intentioned but erring Christians believe it is possible to have Jesus as Savior without having Him as Lord and even go so far as to maintain that “lordship salvation,” as &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/the-cost-discipleship/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“The Cost Discipleship”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/EbHcv1VjtsE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/the-cost-discipleship/“Some Lessons about sin”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/RfK8aXCgTw4/
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:00:52 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1225We need to go back to the miracle stories (Matthew 8) and look at them not as simple stories about Jesus’ ability to make sick people well &#8211; people who have viewed the stories in this way have sometimes mistakenly believed that the New Testament teaches all Christians have the right to perfect health &#8211; &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/some-lessons-about-sin/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Some Lessons about sin”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/RfK8aXCgTw4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/some-lessons-about-sin/“The Sick Need A Doctor”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/4IVoZ6cXvqA/
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 12:00:04 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1223The second miracle in Matthew 8 is another story of a healing, but it adds two elements not present in the first story. First, it is about a Roman centurion, which means it is about a Gentile. This indicates that the Gospel Jesus was preaching is for the entire world and not for Jewish people &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/the-sick-need-a-doctor/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“The Sick Need A Doctor”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/4IVoZ6cXvqA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/the-sick-need-a-doctor/“Jesus and Disease”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/Czeq_hMRNio/
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:00:05 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1212Why Jesus does not heal. Anyone who takes time to compare the four Gospels, especially the first three, the Synoptic Gospels, will notice two things about their arrangement of material. First, there is a rough chronological order. Each tells about Jesus’ baptism by John somewhere at the beginning; proceeds with accounts of Christ’s public teaching &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/jesus-and-disease/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Jesus and Disease”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/Czeq_hMRNio" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/jesus-and-disease/“A Time To Decide”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/XGiVEr8Ulv0/
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:00:02 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1199The last of Jesus’ illustrations in His Sermon on the Mount contrasts two builders, a wise builder and one who is foolish. “Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/a-time-to-decide/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“A Time To Decide”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/XGiVEr8Ulv0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/a-time-to-decide/“Cultural Christianity”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/w2rUOcCNuaw/
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:00:16 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1197“I fear for the future of authentic faith in our country. We live in a time when the common man in our country is thoroughly influenced by the current climate in which the cultural and educational elite propagates an anti-Christian message,” so wrote William Wilberforce in 1797. Wilberforce helped abolish the slave trade in the &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/cultural-christianity/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Cultural Christianity”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/w2rUOcCNuaw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/cultural-christianity/“Slavery and Racism – Is It Always the Same?”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/ZcIOJ5H0DlA/
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:00:11 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1183This past Monday, January 21 we remembered Martin Luther King Jr. and his effort for equality for all people regardless of skin color or any other human distinction. I listened as his most famous speech was re-read. It is always moving to hear those words of Dr. King uttered again. The previous day, Sunday, January &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/slavery-and-racism-is-it-always-the-same/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Slavery and Racism – Is It Always the Same?”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/ZcIOJ5H0DlA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/slavery-and-racism-is-it-always-the-same/“Freedom and a Fruitful New Year”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/1oFPYTVUGwg/
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:00:17 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1167On January 6, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed Congress on the state of the war in Europe. Much of what he said that day has been forgotten. But at the close of his address, he said that he looked forward “to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.” He named them: freedom of &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/freedom-and-a-fruitful-new-year/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Freedom and a Fruitful New Year”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/1oFPYTVUGwg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/freedom-and-a-fruitful-new-year/“Two Ways Only”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~3/5WIYAD0Y6UI/
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:00:29 +0000https://maranathabiblechurch.org/?p=1163One of the worst things that can be taught in religion is that all roads eventually lead to heaven. It is not true, of course, which is bad enough in itself, for all lies are harmful. But in addition to being false, the idea that all ways are equally good is damnable [“worthy of divine &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/two-ways-only/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Two Ways Only”"</span></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HeadsUpMBC/~4/5WIYAD0Y6UI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>https://maranathabiblechurch.org/heads-up/two-ways-only/